{"id":73485,"date":"2012-12-24T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73485"},"modified":"2012-12-24T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T16:54:09","slug":"meet-the-36-year-old-surfer-dude-who-is-the-worlds-newest-billionaire-after-selling-percentage-of-his-action-sports-camera-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73485","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 36-year-old &#8216;surfer dude&#8217; who is the world&#8217;s newest billionaire after selling percentage of his action sports camera business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nick Woodman sold 8.88 per cent of GoPro to Taiwanese manufacturing company for $200 million, making him worth at least $1.15 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He may be a Californian surfer who throws around the word &#8216;dude&#8217; and goes to work in a t-shirt &#8211; but Nicholas Woodman has not been taking it easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 36-year-old is the mastermind behind GoPro &#8211; a wearable camera used by athletes to capture ski slopes or massive waves &#8211; and, as a result, the world&#8217;s newest billionaire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Technology manufacturing company Foxconn bought\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2252824\/Nick-Woodman-Meet-36-year-old-surfer-dude-worlds-newest-billionaire-selling-action-sports-camera-business.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Woodman sold 8.88 per cent of GoPro to Taiwanese manufacturing company for $200 million, making him worth at least $1.15 billion. He may be a Californian surfer who throws around the word &#8216;dude&#8217; and goes to work in a t-shirt &#8211; but Nicholas Woodman has not been taking it easy. The 36-year-old is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73486,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485\/revisions\/73486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}